This Is What Love In Action Looks Like

By: Raymond Murray
In-House Review - Oct 20 2011

When 16-year-old Zach told his parents that he was gay, they panicked, believed that something was psychologically wrong with him and then sent him to Love In Action, a religious organization that promises to "cure" homosexuality. Founded in 1973, Love in Action is the oldest and largest ex-gay organization in the US and takes the position that homosexuality is strictly behavioral and can be cured. Originally for adults, they had recently begun a program for teens, many sent involuntarily. Their draconian methods for sexual "redemption" prompted filmmaker Morgan Jon Fox to both become active in the ensuing protest against the group as well as document it all through interviews with several youths who had been in the program, the then current director of "Love in Action" (himself, a "former gay") and the many young protesters who were compelled to mobilize against the organization.

An important look at gay youth, intolerance and skewed religious beliefs.